Hydrocarbon-supply tank.



No. 731,918. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

G. B. LANDERS. HYDROGARBON SUPPLY TANK.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 10, 1902. N0 MODEL.

No- '731,918. l Patented June 23,1903;

- i UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE,

GEORGE BERNARD LANDERS, OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO TIMOTHY SPELLAGY, OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

HYDROCARBONSUPPLY TANK.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,918, dated June 23, 1903.

Application filed March 10, 1902. Serial No. 97,669. (No models To all whom it may concern: disposed in the same or a lower horizontal Be it known that I, GEORGE BERNARD LAN: plane than tank A and preferably, although DEBS, a citizen of the United States, residing not essentially, open to the atmosphere the at Bakersfield, in the county of Kern and operation of filling the chambers C is as fol- 5 State of California, have invented new and lows, viz: The valves of pipesEare closed, usefulImprovem'entsinHydrocarbon-Supply and the valves b of pipes at are opened and Tanks, of which the following is a specificaallowed to remain open until the chambers tion. A O are fully occupied by steam, when said My invention consists in an improved apvalves Z) are closed. When the steam thus to paratus for utilizing steam to raise and force trapped in the chambers O condenses and 6 petroleum and other liquids; and its novelty, creates vacuums in the chambers, the liquid utility, and practical advantages will be fully from the source or sources of supply will rush understood from the following description in through the pipes F and occupy the cham- .and claim when taken in conjunction with bers.

the accompanying drawing, in which the fig- To force out theliquid supplied to the cham- 6 ure is an elevation, partly in section, of the her 0 in either of the ways above described, apparatus constituting the preferred embodithe operator has but to open thevalves b of ment of my invention. pipes at, when the pressure of steam entering Ihe apparatus shown comprises a tank A, the chambers and acting against the liquid divided bya partitionBinto two closed chamwill displace the same and force it through 7 hers O, a pipe D, adapted to be connected the pipes H to the point or points desired. with a source of steam-supply and having Then the apparatus is used to feed water branches a,leadinginto the chambers G,prefito a boiler or boilers, the tank A is arranged erably the upper portions thereof, and proin a plane above the water-line of the boiler vided with valves or cut-offs b, pipes E, proin order to enable gravity to assist the presvided with valves 0 and adapted to convey sure of steam in forcing the water into the steam from the upper portions of the chamboiler or boilers.

here 0 to other closed chambers or to the open While I have shown and described the tank air, pipes F, provided with non-return valves A as comprising two closed chambers O, I de- G and having for their purpose to convey pesire it understood that but one chamber may troleum, water, or other fluid from a source be employed withoutdeparting from the scope or sources of supplyinto the chambers C, and of my invention. I also desire it understood pipesH, leading, bypreference,from the botthat such changes or modifications may be toms or lower portions of the chambers and made in the apparatus in practice as fairly a having non-return valves I. The non-return 'fall within the scopeof my claim.

valves of the inlet-pipes F are arranged, as Having described my invention, what I shown by dotted lines, to seat or close in a claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, direction away from the chambers C, while isthe non-return Valves I of the pipes H, which The apparatus described comprising the 40 latter have for their purpose to convey the tank divided by a partition into two closed petroleum orotherliquid to the point or points chambers, a pipe adapted to be connected with of use, are arranged, as shown, to seat or close a source of steam-supply,and havingbranches in a direction toward the chambers O. communicating with the chambers, and pro- In the practical operation of the apparatus vided with valves or cut-offs, steam-exhaust when thetank Ais disposed in a plane below pipes communicating with the chambers, and the source of liquid-supply gravity may be having valves or cut-offs, conduits F connectdepended on to.fill the chambers G with liqed with the interiors of the chambers, and uid when the valves 1) of pipes at are closed adapted to be connected with a source or y and the valves c ofpipes E are opened, while sources of liquid-supply, automatic non-rewhen the source of supplyis a body of liquid turn valves contained in said conduits, and:

name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 3d day of March, A. D. 1902.

GEORGE BERNARD LANDERS. Witnesses:

BENJAMIN BRUNDAGE,' FRANK LEEDS.

arranged to seat in a direction away from the chambers, discharge-conduits H connected with the interiors of the chambers, and automatic non-return valves contained in said conduits H, and arranged to seat toward the chambers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 

